xe_ggtt_alloc(9)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xe_ggtt_alloc — literally allocates a GGTT for a given &xe_tile 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct xe_ggtt * xe_ggtt_alloc (struct xe_tile *tile );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• tile — the xe_tile. that's it, that's the argument, she's serving simple and iconic 💅

🍓 DESCRIPTION 🍓

Allocates a xe_ggtt for a given tile. no cap, that's genuinely the whole bit — you hand her a tile, she births a xe_ggtt for it 🌈

🔥 RETURN 🔥

You get a xe_ggtt on success 🎉 — or NULL when you're out of memory 😭 (the sad little "no thoughts, head empty" outcome). so yes, check your return value, bestie, fr fr.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ggtt.c, plus the whole friend group:

• Global Graphics Translation Table (GGTT)(9)
• struct xe_ggtt_node(9)
• struct xe_ggtt_pt_ops(9)
• struct xe_ggtt(9)
• xe_ggtt_start(9)
• xe_ggtt_size(9)
• xe_ggtt_init_early(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_remove(9)
• xe_ggtt_init(9)
• xe_ggtt_shift_nodes(9)
• xe_ggtt_insert_node(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_pt_size(9)
• xe_ggtt_map_bo(9)
• xe_ggtt_map_bo_unlocked(9)
• xe_ggtt_insert_node_transform(9)
• xe_ggtt_insert_bo_at(9)
• xe_ggtt_insert_bo(9)
• xe_ggtt_remove_bo(9)
• xe_ggtt_largest_hole(9)
• xe_ggtt_assign(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_save(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_load(9)
• xe_ggtt_dump(9)
• xe_ggtt_print_holes(9)
• xe_ggtt_encode_pte_flags(9)
• xe_ggtt_read_pte(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_addr(9)
• xe_ggtt_node_size(9)

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k bye bestie, mwah 💖 this page lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe, dated October 2026, and it's xe_ggtt_alloc(9) always and forever 🫶🎀